Welcome, follow along with George Dutka in his journal which documents the additions and future thoughts for the HO scale White River Division model railroad and to his continuing historical New England railroad research. The White River Division is now in its 14th modeler's season. The "modeler's season" runs from November to April each year. Inspiration comes from the Boston and Maine, Rutland and Central Vermont Railway during the 1950's with additional posts by Don Janes and Peter Mumby.

Thursday, 25 February 2016

Tom's Model Railroad Scrapbook

Tom's micro layout is a one industry town.

Here is a blog I thought one should check out. Tom Conboy's blog Tom's Model Railroad Scrapbook has an interesting mini layout featured which he just finished, the Wetterau Food Services Micro Layout. It is a one industry switching layout. The staging is past the bridge in a hidden area. There are three tracks with a set of crossovers. No room for building flats so Tom just painted his backdrop with local home and so on...link below...George Dutka

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A little additional information about the Wetterau Food Services Micro Layout. The warehouse structure is actually a building flat made from foam core board laminated with cardstock brick and window sheets (Clever Models Texture CD). The building flat is about 3/4 of an inch thick. The other structures are painted.

The second track also serves an off-line industry (a glass container manufacturing plant) with covered hoppers spotted below the underpass. Six freight car spots are available for spotting cars. Three at the grocery warehouse and three for the glass plant.